Sovestad No. 2 / Sövestad / Sofvestad / Söfvestad
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animal - mammal - lion - passant - facing each other - 2
Scene Description: only the legs remain on this fragment
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: very worn; it appears to be a twisted moulding
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view of basin - fragment
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design element - motifs - floral - flower - in a circle
Scene Description: or wheel?
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: to the sides of the inscribed flower (?)
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angel - showing wings
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view of basin - fragment
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view of basin - fragment
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view of basin - fragment
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view of basin - fragment
Scene Description: Source caption: "endast den söderslagna och starkt fragmentariska cuppan bevarad"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940920F6] [accessed 14 August 2021]
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Apostle or saint? - Church father?
Scene Description: partially visible here to the left side of the angel
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Tynell (1913-1920: pl. XX: 2)
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information
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09046SOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font2, fragment
Date Visited: 2024-07-07
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Carl stenmästare [Rydbeck]
Museum: Historical museum at Lund University, Lund, LUHM16715
Church / Chapel Name: Sövestads kyrka
Font Location in Church: [the font was found in the churchyard and it now [ca. 1913] in a museum at Lund University]
Previous Font Location(s): Sövestads kyrka
Church Address: Fårabacksvägen 1, 271 95 Ystad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 411 610 02
Site Location: Skåne, Skåne län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Sövestad is located off (W) county road 13, in the municipality and about 8 km N of Ystad
Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift
Historical Region: Herrestads härad, Skåne län
Additional Comments: fragment of a font / damaged font / disused font (only a fragment of the basin remains) MUST USE (have images)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Tynell (1913-1921: 54 and pl. XX: 1-3): fragment of the basin of a medieval baptismal font made of limestone and found in the churchyard at Sövestad. The remaing fragment, about 2/3 of the basin, lower part, has two facing passant lions, a human figuree, probably an Apostle, a saint or a church father, an agel showing its wings and what appears to be a part of a wheel or inscribed flower with some foliage on the sides. There is moulding on the lower rim of the basin side. The underbowl appears plain. This basin was obviously intended to be mounted on a pedestal base, now missing. Tynell (ibid.) reports it in the Historical Museum at Lund University ca. 1913. Noted and illustrated in Rydbeck (1936) in her section on the "Carl stenmästare" [cf. infra]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940920F6] as a baptismal font made of limestone in the second half of the 13th century by a regional workshop; the SHM entry notes that Rydbeck [cf. supra] attributes this font to a "Carl stenmästare" but the SHM entry does not endorse the attribution.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 424023 6151183
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 55.500833, 13.797222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 55° 30′ 3″ N, 13° 47′ 50″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one [fragment]
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: off-centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining [NB: it is not clear whether the hole now visible in the fragment was the original drain]
Rim Thickness: 9 cm**
Diameter (inside rim): 41-43 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm* / 59-60 cm**
Basin Depth: 10 cm**
Basin Total Height: 34 cm* / 28 cm**
Notes on Measurements: *SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940920F6] / ** BSI on-site [NB: measurements of the fragment]
REFERENCES
- Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936, p. 200ff and fig. 205, 206
- Statens Historiska Museum, Stocholm, Medeltidens bildvärld, 2003. URL: https://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/sok/avancerad.asp.
- Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921, p. 54 and pl. XX:1-3